Shoes-equipped piezoelectric transducer for energy harvesting: A brief review

Xin, Yi; Li, Xiang; Tian, Hua; Guo, Chao; Qian, Chuan; Wang, Shuhong; Wang, Cheng

doi:10.1080/00150193.2016.1123061

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“…This idea has encouraged a large amount of research to investigate the possibility and feasibility of harvesting human biomechanical energy. Representative examples include shoe‐mounted generators in the heel or sole, medical implants, wearable devices harvesting head, wrist and arm motion, and backpack shoulder straps . There are comprehensive reviews available which focus on such biomechanical/human energy harvesting …”

Section: Development Of Single‐source Energy Harvestersmentioning

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Energy Harvesting Research: The Road from Single Source to Multisource

2018

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Energy harvesting technology may be considered an ultimate solution to replace batteries and provide a long-term power supply for wireless sensor networks. Looking back into its research history, individual energy harvesters for the conversion of single energy sources into electricity are developed first, followed by hybrid counterparts designed for use with multiple energy sources. Very recently, the concept of a truly multisource energy harvester built from only a single piece of material as the energy conversion component is proposed. This review, from the aspect of materials and device configurations, explains in detail a wide scope to give an overview of energy harvesting research. It covers single-source devices including solar, thermal, kinetic and other types of energy harvesters, hybrid energy harvesting configurations for both single and multiple energy sources and single material, and multisource energy harvesters. It also includes the energy conversion principles of photovoltaic, electromagnetic, piezoelectric, triboelectric, electrostatic, electrostrictive, thermoelectric, pyroelectric, magnetostrictive, and dielectric devices. This is one of the most comprehensive reviews conducted to date, focusing on the entire energy harvesting research scene and providing a guide to seeking deeper and more specific research references and resources from every corner of the scientific community.

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Section: Development Of Single‐source Energy Harvestersmentioning

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“…With the largest number of research and publications, there are also plenty of reviews written about piezoelectric energy harvesting. Readers can refer to the reviews focusing on materials, devices, and structural miniaturization…”

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confidence: 99%

Energy Harvesting Research: The Road from Single Source to Multisource

2018

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“…Square array in the heat map (from left to right, from bottom to top), is arranged in the order shown in Figure 1(b). The right fitting diagram demonstrates the result of a sensing point (No. 16), where the output is recorded every increase of 5 N.…”

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A lamination-based piezoelectric insole gait analysis system for massive production for Internet-of-health things

Dai

Xie

Chen

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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Gait analysis has been proved to be a powerful and efficient means for health monitoring. Variety of nervous system diseases and emergencies can be detected by interpreting plantar stress distributions. Among gait analysis techniques, piezoelectric insole architectures receive boosting attentions due to its convenience for users to wear and its long-term and real-time monitoring ability. However, the complex integration of piezoelectric insole architecture limits its successful use for massive production for the Internet-of-health things (IoHT). Hence, in this article, we present a flexible printed circuit board and lamination-associated technique, which presents high detection sensitivity at 0.1 N, satisfying the need for assisting nervous system disease diagnosis, and showing strong potential for commercialization.

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“…Several working mechanisms or concepts can be used to fabricate a human energy harvester, such as electromagnetic [4], electrostatic [5], thermoelectric [6], triboelectric [7], piezoelectric [1] and biofuel cell [8]. Among them, the piezoelectric energy harvester has attracted much more research attention because of its simple structure and great potential to convert the mechanical energy into electricity in an direct and high-efficiency manner [9][10]. The piezoelectric energy conversion occurs because the piezoelectric molecular structure is oriented such that the material exhibits a local charge separation, known as an electric dipole.…”

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Energy harvesting from human motions for wearable applications

Cao

2018

Industria Textila

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Harvesting biomechanical energy from human’s movement is an alternative solution to effectively power the wearable electronics. In this paper, two impact-driven piezoelectric energy harvesters were developed which can be integrated within human shoe-soles and also can be tailored to integrate in commercial carpets or outdoor roadway to harvest the massive mechanical energy from the passing vehicles or people crowds at low frequencies. For a comprehensive study, two buckling types of PVDF harvesters were selected and tested. It has been shown that the mechanical responses of the arch type prototype and the C type prototype are different. In addition, the mechanical response of the C type can be affected by the vertical height of the C type. The peak-peak voltage of the C type increases with the vertical height of the C type decreases. The peak-peak voltage of arch type is almost the same with the C type when the vertical height of which is 25 mm. The stability of the output voltage of the arch type is the worst when compared with that of the three C types. The stability of the output voltage of the C type when the vertical height of which is 25 mm is the worst among the three different vertical heights

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Shoes-equipped piezoelectric transducer for energy harvesting: A brief review

Cited by 56 publications

References 38 publications

Energy Harvesting Research: The Road from Single Source to Multisource

Energy Harvesting Research: The Road from Single Source to Multisource

A lamination-based piezoelectric insole gait analysis system for massive production for Internet-of-health things

Energy harvesting from human motions for wearable applications

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